On MacIntyre

(c) 2003

On Adam Smith

 
(c) 2001

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My Research Interest and Current Projects:
 

My research revolves around the intersection of the history of philosophy and contemporary political theory. My main interest is in theories of diversity and justice, with special attention to education and otherness, human rationality, and the roles of emotion in moral judgment. I hope to create a general theory of human understanding in the midst of difference that internalizes respect above and beyond a minimalist conception of human or political rights. Specifically, I am working on a restructuring of contemporary liberalism: one built on the moral psychology and political economy of Adam Smith. I reject the Kantian foundation that supports most contemporary liberal theory and hope to show that Smith’s work can bridge the false dichotomy assumed by the “liberalism versus communitarianism” approach to political philosophy.

 I am currently working on a multi-book project articulating the above liberal theory. Over the course of the two volumes I will offers, first, an interpretation of Adam Smith’s work as a theory of pluralism and rationality (volume one) and, second, a new liberal theory built on that foundation (volume two). In the process I connect Smith's theory with contemporary debates in argumentation theory, philosophy of education, literacy studies, pluralism, and neutrality. Some of this work has already been published in journals and proceedings.

In addition to my scholarly work, I am committed to the ideal of the public philosopher -- the citizen who contributes to a critical and intellectual dialogue with the intent of cultivating democracy and encouraging participation from people in all areas of life. I will therefore continue to publish in popular venues such as newspapers and public radio, and speak at panels on current events. I have found that these are wonderful places to explore themes in my work and they helps me experiment with ideas that eventually make their way into my more academic work.

NEW
A profile of me and the new Institute for Philosophy in Public Life

Click on the above image to read a news story about me and the new institute that appeared in the UND student Newspaper: The Dakota Student

A biographical profile

Click on the above image to read a profile on me from my undergraduate alma mater, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, from their Fall 2007 alumni magazine.
You can also download it as a PDF

A research profile

Click on the above image to read a profile on my research from UND Discovery, the university research magazine. It was published in their Winter 2007-2008 issue.
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Selected Lectures

"Is the Free Market Dead?"
Comments to Students for a Democratic Society
Panel Discussion
November, 13, 2008
PDF

 "Forcing the Iraqis to be Free:
Comments on the Question: 'Can Democracy be Imposed by an External Military Force?'”
Panel Discussion
March 8, 2007
PDF

 "Homosexuality and Faith "
Comments at the Sacred Spaces, Safe Places
 Panel Discussion
October, 2006
PDF

On Hate Speech and the Politically Correct:
Comments to Students at the University of North Dakota School of Law
Comments during a panel discussion on hate speech
sponsored by the University of North Dakota
School of Law
January 27, 2006
PDF

Ethics in Research: A Primer
A PowerPoint Presentation from the UND Graduate Research Assistant Orientation, given at the beginning of each academic year to new GRAs.
Power Point Presentation

The Invisible Hand of Rationality: On the Intersection of Adam Smith and Alasdair MacIntyre
Plenary lecture for the 31st Conference on Value Inquiry, April 10 - 12, 2003
PDF

 "Comments to the Law Women's Caucus "
 "Where Are We Now? Post 9-11 Perspectives on Legal Issues, Immigration, Impact on Stereotypes, and Religion, " panel at the  University of North Dakota School of Law, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002.
PDF
 

Professional Philosophical Publications
 

Doctoral Dissertation: Adam Smith and the Problem of Neutrality in Contemporary Liberal Theory. PDF (file has different pagination than the hardbound version)
 

     Books and Edited Volumes

Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments. New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming.

Guest Editor, On Second Thought (“The Philosophy Issue”), North Dakota Humanities Council, (June, 2010), forthcoming.

Guest Editor, “Symposium on Adam Smith and Education” The Adam Smith Review, No. 3 (2007): 49 – 158.

On MacIntyre (Wadsworth Philosophers Series). Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2003.

On Adam Smith (Wadsworth Philosophers Series). Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2001. 

Guest Editor, Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines. Special Issue: Political Philosophy and Critical Thinking. Montclair: Institute for Critical Thinking, vol. 18, no. 1 (Autumn, 1998).

Articles and Book Chapters:  

“The Two Adams: Ferguson and Smith on Sympathy and Sentiment,” in Adam Ferguson: A Reassessment, Philosophy, Politics and Society edited by Eugene Heath and Vincenze Merolle (London: Rickering & Chatto Publishers, LTD.), forthcoming.

“Adam Smith,” entry for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/smith.htm

“Adam Smith’s Ad Hominem: Eighteenth Century Insight on the role of Character in Argument,” Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007): 1461 – 1466. PDF

“Adam Smith’s Philosophy of Education,” The Adam Smith Review, No. 3 (2007): 51 – 74. PDF.

“On the Meaning of the Term ‘Progressive’: A Philosophical Investigation,” The William Mitchell Law Review 33:1 (2006), 1-50. PDF

“Sympathy, Difference, and Education: Social Unity in the Work of Adam Smith,” Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 1 (April 2006): 79 – 111. PDF

“Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Tabloid (4 pages with essay and interview), 2005.

“A Response to Lauren Brubaker”, The Adam Smith Review, No. 1 (2004), 194 – 196.

“Aliens, Traitors, and Elitists: University Values and the Faculty,” Thought and Action, Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2004), 95 - 106. PDF

“Neutrality, Pluralism, and Education: Civic education as learning about the other,” Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 23, No. 4 (July 2004), 235 – 263. PDF

“Emotion, Context and Rhetoric: Adam Smith's Informal Argumentation,” Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003, 1065 – 1070. PDF

“Three Conversations: Teaching Plato in Introduction to Philosophy,” Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 26 No. 1 (March 2003), 3 – 20.

“Religion and Justice in the work of Adam Smith,” Kontroversen, Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Gesselschaft, Issue 9 (2000).

“Guest Editor’s Introduction: Critical Thinking and the Tradition of Political Philosophy — An Historical Overview,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 18, no. 1 (Autumn, 1998), 4 - 21. PDF.

“Critical Thinking and the Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith's Moral Psychology and Contemporary Debate in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 16, no. 3 (Spring 1997), 78 - 91.

“Three Types of Critical Thinking About Religion,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 15, no. 3 (Spring 1996), 79 - 88. PDF

“Separating the Inseparable: MacIntyre on Rawls' Public Reason in a Political Conception of Justice,” Academic Inquiry: in Progress. Vienna: Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 1995, 16 - 38.

“A Computer Generation of Community and Freedom: A Reply to David Applefield,” Fin de Siècle vol. I, no. 1 (September 1995), 62 - 65.

Translator (German to English), Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Newsletter 47. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), October/December 1994.

“Self-Correction, Hidden Assumptions and Cultural Pluralism,” Bulletin of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (December 1994).

Reviews:

“Review essay: Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety by Stephen J. McKenna; Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture by Jerry Evensky; and The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations by Dogan Göçmen,”  British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, forthcoming.

“Review Essay: D.D. Raphael’s The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy by (Oxford University Press, 2007), Economics and Philosophy, 24:1 (March 2008): 129 - 137. PDF

“The Wealth of Nations and the Morality of Opulence (Review Essay of Jerry Evansky’s Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture)” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 25-A (2007): 61- 69. PDF

“Review: Leonidas Montes: Adam Smith in Context : A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought,” The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13:1 (2005), 179 – 183.

“Review: James W. Otteson’s ‘Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life,” Mind Vol. 113, No. 449 (January 2004), 202 – 207. PDF

“Review: Knud Haakonssen’s ‘Adam Smith’s Theory Of Moral Sentiments’,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy, Vol. 1 No. 2 (Autumn 2003), 181 – 184. PDF

 

Popular Writing

These columns represent my own political opinions and analyses. They are an attempt to influence the reader or listener.  Since this page is visited by my students, it is essential to mention that although I certainly do hope to persuade you, you will never be graded based on your agreement or disagreement with my opinions.

What Are Free Markets For?
Or, what should we think about before we think about voting?
Prairie Polis
(The blog of the North Dakota Humanities Council)
April, 2008
PDF
Link to essay on Prairie Polis
 

 "What is Moral Education? "
The Undercurrent
June, 2006
PDF

 "Faculty Q&A:
Abramoff Scandal Underscores Ethics Crisis
 in American Politics. "
An Interview
UND Website
January 13, 2006
Text

 "Religion and Politics "
An interview.
Grand Forks Herald
December 12, 2004
Text

 "Editorial Attacked Irresponsibly "
A defense of the UND law school and their clinic.
Grand Forks Herald, September 5, 2003
Text

An Interview About Medical Ethics
 NDPR,  "Hear It Now "
July 17, 2003. Audio (offsite link) 

 "Commentary on Pat Robertson and the Supreme Court "
 NDPR,  "Hear It Now ", July 28, 2003
PDF
Audio (offsite link)

 "Obituary for John Rawls "
 NDPR,  "Hear It Now ", December, 2003
PDF

 "George Bush's Binoculars "
 NDPR,  "Hear It Now ", December, 2003
PDF

 "Democrats Must Stop Apologizing for Liberal Beliefs "
Grand Forks Herald, November 13, 2002
Text

 "A Jewish New Yorker's Reflection on the Terrorist Acts in New York "
Guest Sermon, B’nai Israel Synagogue, Grand Forks, North Dakota, Rosh Hashanah, 5726, (September 17, 2001)
PDF
 

Selected (non UND) Fellowships, Visiting Positions, Grants, and Awards:
  

     Fall, 2009 – Fall, 2014  Grant for the formation and funding of the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life, from The North Dakota Humanities Council: $195,000

                  Spring, 2008    Visiting Professor, Department of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland.

                  Spring, 2008    Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. 

                      Fall, 2007    Visiting Professor, The Institute for Ethics in Public Life/Honors Program, State University of New York, Plattsburgh.

                      Fall, 2007    Guest, Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen): Vienna, Austria.

Dec. 2006 – Nov. 2007     General Grant for the Department of Philosophy and Religion Colloquium Series, North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota.

Nov. 2004 – Nov. 2005    General Grant for the Department of Philosophy and Religion Colloquium Series, North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota.

      July 2004 – July 2005    Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship, North Dakota Humanities Council, North Dakota.

                  Spring, 2005    Visiting Professor, Department of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland.

                      Fall, 2004    Guest, Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen): Vienna, Austria.

               Summer, 2004    Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities.

               Summer, 2000    Visiting Professor, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

    July - December, 1995    Junior Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen): Vienna, Austria.

    July - December, 1994    Junior Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen): Vienna, Austria.

                      Fall, 1993    Teaching Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

           Fall- Spring, 1992    Teaching Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

               Summer, 1992    Liberty and Society Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, seminar in Belmont, California.

                  Spring, 1992    Teaching Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Selected Conference Presentations and Lectures
 

Invited Lectures and Public Presentations:

                     October, 2009     “Normativity and History (in Adam Smith)” Invited Lecture, International Conference on Political Economy, Kocaeli University, Derbent, Turkey.

                          April, 2009     “When Saying Too Little Constitutes Hate Speech,” Invited Lecture, Fargo-Moorhead Unitarian Universalist Church, Fargo, North Dakota.

                 November, 2008     “Adam Smith’s Constructivism: On Ethical and Scientific Discovery,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota.

                           June, 2008     “Money, Manners, & Morals: Adam Smith’s Theory of Difference and What it Tells us About America Today,” Invited Lecture, Fargo History Conference, Fargo, North Dakota.

                 November, 2008     “Adam Smith’s Constructivism: On Ethical and Scientific Discovery,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota.

                           June, 2008    “Money, Manners, & Morals: Adam Smith’s Theory of Difference and What it Tells us About America Today,” Invited Lecture, Fargo History Conference, Fargo, North Dakota.

                         May, 2008     “Smithian Constructivism: On liberalism, scientific method, and moral inquiry,” Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.

                  February, 2008     “Smithian Constructivism: A first draft” The Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey.           

                   October, 2007     “Liberal Sympathies: The American Constitution and the Education of its Citizens” Invited Lecture, The American Democracy Project, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York.

                   October, 2007     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” Invited Lecture, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York.

                        April, 2007     “Adam Smith’s Ad Hominem: Eighteenth Century Insight on the role of Character in Argument” Keynote Address, Phi Sigma Tau Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of North Dakota.

                      March, 2007     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” Brantl Lecture, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey.

                      March, 2007     “Adam Smith’s Philosophy of Education” Invited Lecture, Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy with Children, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey.     

                  February, 2006     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” Invited Lecture, Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota.

                December, 2005     Invited Commentator, International Adam Smith Society, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, New York, New York.

                      March, 2005     “The Primacy of the Moral Sentiments: The Scottish Enlightenment and ‘The Adam Smith Problem’” Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy/Centre for Ethics, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia.          

                March, 2005    “Biography and Sympathy: Gender, Race, and Class in the Work of Adam Smith” Invited Lecture, Department of Moral and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

               November, 2004     “The Invisible Hand of Rationality: On the Intersection of Adam Smith and Alasdair MacIntyre” Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, St. Johns University, Jamaica, New York.

               November, 2004     “Biography and Sympathy: Gender, Race, and Class in the Work of Adam Smith” Invited Lecture, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.

                March, 2004    “The Primacy of the Moral Sentiments: How Ought We Read Adam Smith?”, Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

                  April, 2003    “The Invisible Hand of Rationality: On the Intersection of Adam Smith and Alasdair MacIntyre”, Plenary Session, Conference on Value Inquiry, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

                March, 2003    “Can Alasdair MacIntyre Save the World?” Invited Lecture, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York.

            February, 2001    ”The Road Not Taken: Rediscovering Adam Smith”, Invited Lecture, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.

         November, 2000    “Constructing and Identifying the Good Person: Rhetoric and the Free Market in the Work of Adam Smith”, Invited Lecture, Department of Economics Colloquium, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

                    July, 2002    “The American Intellectual after September 11^th, Invited Lecture, St. Art Philosophie-Café, Vienna, Austria.

                    July, 2002    “Politics and Conversation”, Invited Lecture, St. Art Philosophie-Café, Vienna, Austria.

                March, 2002    “Aliens, Traitors, and Elitists: The subservience of University Values to Social and Political Forces.” Invited Lecture, Conference on the Academy and the World, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

          December, 2000    “How Ought We Present Adam Smith? Some Thoughts on Corpus”, Invited Lecture, International Adam Smith Society, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, New York, New York.

              August, 2000    “Neutrality, Multiculturalism and Education” Invited Lecture, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

              August, 2000    “Spheres of Privilege: Justice and Exclusion” Invited Lecture, Ethics and Education Doctoral Student Research Group, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

            February, 1999    “Some Proposed Solutions to Problems Found in MacIntyre's Theory of Tradition-Bound Rationality,” Invited Lecture, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

                  April, 1997    “Thinking About Political Philosophy: Some Thoughts about Liberalism,” Invited Lecture, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.

            February, 1994    “Adam Smith on the Competition of Religion in a Liberal Society”, Invited Lecture, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York.

Other Lectures and Public Presentations:

                         June, 2006     “Adam Smith’s Ad Hominem: Eighteenth Century Insight on the role of Character in Argument” Sixth International Conference on Argumentation, International Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

                        April, 2005     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Lecture, Jamestown College, Jamestown, North Dakota.

                        April, 2005     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Lecture, North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, North Dakota.

                        April, 2005     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Lecture, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.      

                        April, 2005     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Lecture, Pembina State Museum/State Historical Society of North Dakota, Pembina, North Dakota.

                  February, 2005     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Lecture, Heritage Center, Bismarck, North Dakota. 

                    January, 2005     “Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Lecture, Heritage Center, Bismarck, North Dakota.

               November, 2004     “Adam Smith’s Philosophy of Education”, Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Burlington, Vermont.

                        April, 2004     “Adam Smith’s Puzzles: The Philosophical Investigations Leading to the Wealth of Nations” Special Conference on Values, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point     

              January, 2004    “The Primacy of the Moral Sentiments: How Ought We Read Adam Smith?”, 2^nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii.  

              August, 2003    “Education and Otherness: Social and Political Unity in the Work of Adam Smith ", American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

            February, 2003    “On the Intersection of Adam Smith and Alasdair MacIntyre: A First Draft”, University of North Dakota Graduate School Scholarly Activities Forum, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

          December, 2002    “Author meets Critics: James Otteson’s Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life” American Association for the Philosophical Study of Society, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

             October, 2002    “The Liberal Arts, the Free Market, and the Community”, North Dakota University System Humanities Summit, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

             October, 2002    “Proximity and Biography: Reconstructing Adam Smith’s Moral Condemnation of Slavery ", Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New York, New York.

                   June, 2002    “Emotion, Context and Rhetoric: Adam Smith's Informal Argumentation”, Fifth International Conference on Argumentation, International Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

                  April, 2002    “The Unexamined McLife: A Eudaimonian Critique of Fast Food Values”, 30^th Conference on Value Inquiry. Milwaukee Wisconsin.

                March, 2002    “An Eighteenth Century Informal Logic: Adam Smith’s Theory of Argumentation”, Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, American Philosophical Association, Western Division Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

          December, 2001    “Teaching Critical Think with Substance” Committee on Teaching Philosophy and the Committee on Philosophy in Pre-College Instruction, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

         September, 2001    “The Road Not Taken, Rediscovering Adam Smith”, Department of Philosophy and Religion Colloquium, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

                   June, 2001    “Anticipating Identity Politics: Sympathy and Education in the work of Adam Smith”, Conference on Political Economy and Eighteenth Century Culture, International Adam Smith Society and The Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society, Arlington, Virginia.

                  April, 2001    “Punishing Oneself: Adam Smith on Self-Hatred as Authentic Moral Condemnation”, 29^th Conference on Value Inquiry, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

                March, 2001    “Civic Education and Cognitive Conflict: Cultivating Citizens in a Pluralist Democracy”, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

             October, 2000    “Monopoly and Education”, Central Valley Philosophy Association, Fresno, California.

                March, 2000    “The Road Not Taken: Rediscovering Adam Smith”, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California.

              August, 1999    “Political Philosophy and the Hidden Limits of Critical Thinking”, 19^th Annual Conference on Critical Thinking and Education Reform, Rohnert Part, California.

                  April, 1999    “A Jewish Christian Dialogue”, Interfaith Dialogue, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

                March, 1999    “Anti-Semitism: A tradition”, Interfaith Dialogue, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

            February, 1999    “To Be A Jew: Four Central Components of the Jewish Identity”, Interfaith Dialogue, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.

         November, 1998    “Politics and Truth”, Kentucky Philosophy Association, Louisville, Kentucky.

              August, 1998    “Introducing Pragmatic Liberalism: (1) Pragmatic Neutrality”, Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts.

                  April, 1998    “Social Unity and the Moral Sentiments: Reclaiming Adam Smith”, New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association, Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

          April 2 - 5, 1998    Invited Participant, “Adam Smith's System of Ordered Liberty”, Liberty Fund Colloquium (16 participants), Chicago, Illinois.

         November, 1997    “Some Proposed Solutions to Problems Found in MacIntyre’s Theory of Tradition-Bound Rationality”, New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association, Lodi, New Jersey.

            February, 1997    “Reexamining Neutrality in Contemporary Liberal Theory: A Proposal,” Philosophy Colloquium, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey.

         November, 1995    “Separating the Inseparable: MacIntyre on Rawls' Public Reason in a Political Conception of Justice”, Junior Visiting Fellows Conference, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen,, Vienna, Austria.

                  April, 1994    “Why Alasdair MacIntyre is a Liberal”, Graduate Student Philosophy Colloquium, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

                   May, 1991    “Keynote Address,” Academic Convocation, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York.

                  April, 1991    “Making the World A Better Place: Philosophy of Activism”, Northeastern Regional Collegiate Honors Program Conference, Wilmington, Delaware (with David Mowry).